Commercial Contracts: A Practical Guide to Standard Terms - Softcover

Lawson, Richard; Singleton, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847668674 ISBN 13: 9781847668677

Publisher: Bloomsbury Professional, 2011

Synopsis

This is an invaluable guide to the practical aspects of drafting and interpreting commercial contracts in the UK. It provides useful background and detailed advice on the law surrounding a wide range of commercial agreements including: key common clauses, when to use standard terms, procedures and good practice, termination of contracts, remedies for breach, and the specific issues relating to export, software, and consumer contracts. The book also contains valuable UK precedents, including expert guidance on business-to-business and business-to-consumer agreements, providing users with an excellent tool for drafting commercial contracts. The third edition includes important new UK case law on: how to incorporate terms into a contract * how an exclusion clause must be drafted to have full effect * the terms as to quality implied into contracts by the Sale of Goods Act 1979 * what constitutes reasonable and fair terms under the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 and the Unfair Terms in Cons

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About the Author

Richard Lawson is a partner at Lawmark and Susan Singleton is a solicitor with her own London firm, Singletons

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Professional
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847668674
• ISBN 13: 9781847668677
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 446